Although it’s a German license plate, he’s not German. The blond passenger speaks to him in Russian after the crash. Perhaps crashing his $900,000+ Porsche while living high-life in the French Riviera is just bad karma on the ill-gotten gains from the Kleptocracy known as modern day Russia.

I saw a teenager in a rice-rocket do this once in the parking lot of a restaurant I was taking my girlfriend to. He nearly ran over us. But then he lost control and rammed into a light post, really messing up his car. Coolant was leaking all over the place and steam shooting out of his hood. I felt like he got a valuable lesson that day.

Hey,
Koenigsegg, as a motorcyclist, now I’m offended (-;
Actually, “rice rocket” (or riceburner) originally referred to motorbikes. There were (for the period) insanely fast and dangerous Japanese motorcycles already in the 1960s, several years before the Japanese carmakers started making sporty cars.
The Kawa H1 is a good example.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_triple

The likes of the white-linen trust fund kids out to have their fun. That money or similar is what Musk is after with the Ludicrous speed options and selling vehicles on acceleration. Imagine if this guy was driving a silent P85D and clipped of those pedestrians?

I appreciate this must be a *really* difficult concept to grasp by you ‘journos’ (judging by the number of times you all get it wrong) but the 918 here is not an EV.

It is very easy to tell an EV from an ICEV – the latter has an exhaust pipe, the former does not.

Should it help in correctly categorising EVs and non-EVs, EVs don’t make silly, male appendage-extending noises like this one did – right before it nearly killed someone and then crashed. Clearly the driver should be in prison by now. MW

It is an easy concept for us, trust us we more than understand the difference. Unfortunately, it is not an easy concept for 99% of the rest of the public. Introducing more obtuse acronyms like ICEV, while perhaps more accurate, make the tech even more difficult to follow and understand to those not as well versed as yourself.

So the decision comes down to placating the 1% of that 1% who both knows the difference – and who also gets in a twist about the ubiquitous usage… or servicing the other 99.9% of the market.

Unlike the rest of the market, I know that you (and anyone else who is dismayed by the generic usage of terms) clearly do understand the differences in vernacular, and hope that you can tolerate it with the knowledge that it is done for the “greater good” over the “lessor” offence.

hmm.. then the Porche here is an ICEE, or ICE-E?
with as much value, as in, “it took ’em This long to discover that EV is an acceleration wet-dream? Now this Porche is seen as an engineering masterpiece, by the Really few, the proud, the drunk?”

It’s kinda’ embarrassing that the complexity and cost of a -good- nitrous system can be matched by a 12 volt lead-acid and a motor, ya’ know?